Places JackalopeTamer Wants to Go

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Head underground and take a tour of the city's working sewer system, and see the underground river Senne, which defined Brussels for centuries before being covered in the 19th century.

This charming, hidden guild museum holds some 700 years of crossbow history.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

Nature is slowly overtaking this disused cemetery on the outskirts of Brussels.

Dummies recreate radiological discoveries from history.

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.